wait-for-it SKILL.md skillA
wait-for-it from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/wait-for-it@git:20261016.a68b954Pins git:20261016.a68b954 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins
- Path
plugins/wait-for-it/skills/wait-for-it/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261016.a68b954, committed Oct 16, 2026
- Size
- 9,045 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Use when the user wants to be told when something happens later, or asks you to monitor or watch something still in progress: CI or a build finishing, PR checks or reviews landing, a deploy or release going out, a feature flag taking traffic, a log line appearing, a metric crossing a threshold. Triggers on "monitor CI", "monitor the PR", "monitor the deploy", "watch it through deploys", "ping me when", "tell me as soon as", "let me know when", "notify me if", "wait for it to finish". Also use…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# wait-for-it Turn "tell me when X happens" into a shell probe that emits only when X actually happens. ## The failure this exists to prevent A scheduled task or a dynamic `/loop` re-evaluates a **prompt** every tick. A tick where nothing happened still costs a full model turn and still emits a message. Observed: a 26-second Opus turn whose entire output was "No new hits." `Monitor` and `Bash(run_in_background)` cost **zero tokens** while nothing is happening, because they run a command and only your printed lines become notifications. ## Step 1: pick the tool | What the user wants | Use | |---|---| | One notification total, then done | `Bash` with `run_in_background: true`, running `watch-loop.sh --once` | | One per occurrence, indefinite | `Monitor` with `timeout_ms` at the max, re-armed on each expiry | | One per occurrence, until a known time/tick budget runs out | `Monitor`, with `--max-ticks` set from that budget | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/wait-for-it@sha256:5eb78e80a05b7451The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.a68b954, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fkmzlgn3rcavpi26)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 16, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9045 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fkmzlgn3rcavpi26 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/wait-for-it GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5eb78e80a05b74515001ea16cf6f94aa273d252449ac4d52ab84e66416efb842
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.